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...bizarre bicycling accidents, Stereolab’s had it pretty tough the last couple of years. There have been personnel shifts, distracting side projects, and, most damaging, the death of vocalist Mary Hansen. This hectic beginning to the millennium seems to have left Stereolab a bit dazed, a shell of its former self. Try as they might, the group’s most recent release sounds like they’re just going through the motions. There’s very little on “Fab Four” that we haven’t seen before stylistically. Here...
...alongside satin slippers and silk lingerie. For her stores in New York, Atlanta and Los Angeles, designer Tory Burch added mirrored walls, plush sofas and bright colors that recall her own cozy apartment. Meanwhile, Anthropologie's new home collection Chateau offers such whimsical items as floral-print lounge chairs, shell-encrusted chandeliers and beaded velvet curtains...
Mastering your culinary domain--whether you aspire to make chicken soup like Mom or eggplant like Emeril--often requires more guidance than a classic cookbook can provide. Now, rather than shell out for lessons, you can hop online and learn to slice, spice and saut like a cordon bleu. Just remember not to spill your bchamel on the keyboard...
...Barbara Museum of Natural History redated the skeletal remains of an individual dubbed Arlington Springs Woman, found on another of the Channel Islands, pushing her age back to about 11,000 years B.P. Farther south, on Cedros Island off the coast of Baja California, U.C. at Riverside researchers found shell middens - heaps of kitchen waste, essentially - and other materials that date back to the same period as Daisy Cave. Down in the Andes, researchers have found coastal sites with shell middens dating to about 10,500 years...
...laptop has "catchy graphics," including diagrams of a hollow metallic sphere 2 ft. in diameter and weighing about 440 lbs. Other documents show a sphere-shaped array of tiny detonators. No file specifically refers to a nuclear bomb, but U.S. officials say the design of the sphere--an outer shell studded with small chemical-explosive charges meant to detonate inward, which would squeeze an inner core of material into a critical mass--is akin to that of classic devices like Fat Man, the atom bomb dropped on Nagasaki during World War II. "Because of the size and weight...